Guardian Music — (Edition) Jazz and contemporary music from Europe’s northern climes have often been saddled with stereotypes – Jan Garbarek’s lonesome sax laments, or the ambient nu-funk of Bugge Wesseltoft or Nils Petter Molvaer. This perceptively compiled co... more info

The Telegraph — Hans Petter Moland's Nordic thriller holds together thanks to assured direction, says Robbie Collin more info

XLR8R — Fresh off the release of his collaborative album with Juan Atkins, the excellent Borderland, multi-instrumentalist and techno stalwart Moritz von Oswald (pictured above) has announced plans to issue another collaborative LP—this time in conjunction... more info

Sixeyes — From Dalarna in central Sweden, the band Francis is singer Petra Mases (Vocals, Piano), Jerker Henriksson (Guitars, Backing vocals), Petter Nygårdh (Drums), and Tim Grundtman (Bass, Backing vocals). With only eight months between the release of thei... more info

Chorus.fm — Today's interview from the random questionnaire offered to any and all bands comes from *Petter Carlsen* (http://www.facebook.com/pettercarlsen). You can read the interview here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=3088941). more info

XLR8R — There was a time when Norway's quirkiest outsider duo Ost & Kjex was most notable for its fascination with food. Back in 2004, the pair, often clad in clothes of varying shades of mustard and donning Wisconsin cheesehead-like bowlers and top hat... more info

Discobelle.net — Swedish indie all-star band Amason releases their first track “Margins”. Amason are Gustaf Ejstes (Dungen), Amanda Hollingby (Idiot Wind), Nils Törnqvist (Little Majorette), Petter Winnberg (Little Majorette) and Pontus Winnberg (Miike Snow). In... more info

Discobelle.net — The good folks in Safari Sound together with Petter and Red Stripe brings us “A Reggae Christmas” (reprise from last year but still just as good and very much needed for the holidays). “It all started a few weeks ago when we had an “early Car... more info

Guardian Music — In this fifth of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from recent weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's edition1) D... more info

Guardian Music — (Lost Marble)Django Bates has done it again. In 2010, he received rapturous cheers for his Beloved Bird album, dedicated to bebop sax genius Charlie Parker. This is the five-star follow-up, also with the young Danish bass and drums team of Petter Eld... more info